Fruit juice extractor



July 27, 1937. M. A. KENNEDY 2,087,979

FRUIT JUICE EXTRACTOR Filed May 7, 1935 Jag-i- 3 3 I ,1 3.

Patented July 27, 1937 I I I 'UNITED'STAT'ES PATENT OFFICE FRUIT JUICE. EXTRACTOR Michael AJKnnedy, Los Angeles, cam.

Application May '7, 1935, Serial No. 20,124

2 Claims. (01. 146-3) This invention relates to juice extractors used central approximately conical body portion 1 for the purpose of extracting juiceparticularly' provided with radiating blades 1, whose bottom from citrus fruits, such as oranges, lemons, grape portions are extended out far enough to cover fruit, etc. and is intended to provide a constructhe outermost row of perforations and whose 5 tion and arrangement of juicer that will be cabottom edge lies in close proximity to, and in 5 pable of more easily and efiiciently extracting the parallelism with, the foraminous bottom 3. pulp and juice from a half section of the orange It is the intention to mount the reamer upon and at the same time eliminate the objectionable the central portion of the strainer receptacle so clogging of the strainer by rapid accumulation of H as to permit rotative movement of the reamer pulp which requires very frequent removal'to'. through a substantial arc of sufficient length to 10 keep the strainer openings free. permit. the bottom edges of. the reamer to wipe In general the invention comprises a receptacle or scrape away the pulp on the bottom of the having a peripheral wall and a foraminous strainer from obstructing the openings in the strainer bottom combined with a reamer havstrainer sufficiently to permit the juice to flow ing radiating reamer blades and having bearing freely through the strainer without the necessity 15 support on a central portion of the strainer to of frequently emptying the strainer of pulp bepermit rotative movement of the reamer, the fore operating upon additional pieces of fruit. blades of the reamer having their bottom edges With the usual fixed glass reamer it is s y extending in close proximity to, and outward necessary, when the oranges contain a considerover, the foraminous area of the strainer so that able amount of pulp, p y the 1 1 after 20 the rotative movement of the reamer acts to ju c n eac Orange- With a o v eam r scrape away or remove the pulp that is clogging having scraper blades at its bottom it is quite: the openings away from the openings sufficiently practicable to juice a very considerable number to permit the continued drainage of the juice of oranges without any interruption for the purthrough the strainer. This and other features pose Of ta O the p p- 25 of the invention will be described in the followe particular means of establishing a O V ing specification and will be defined in the claims pp ing engagement w n t r mer and hereto annexed. the strainer receptacle may be varied as it is In the accompanying drawing I haveillustrated im a e i Which of these tWO members be p an embodiment of this invention, in which vided with the male and which with the female 30 Fig. 1 is a plan view of the strainer assembled member constituting the rotative j n for use. In the actual specific construction shown I Fig. 2 is a vertical section showing the juicer have provided a centrally bored boss 5 having a mounted upon a juice receiving jar or tumbler. circular flange at its bottom for securing it by Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 are detail views showing, remeans of screws or rivets 4 to the strainer bot- 35 spectively, in plan and in vertical elevation a portom. One fastening Screw 3EL y be projected tion of the juicer having a modified arrangeup through the fla Sufiiciently pp and ment of stop limiting the rotative movement for retain in operative position a stop member or a special purpose to be described. pin 8 located between two adjacent reamer 40 In the practice of the invention as illustrated b es 5 as to limit the rotative movement in 40 in the drawing, I employ a strainer receptacle either direction, since rotation of the reamer which preferably comprises a peripheral wall I, blades '1 through a relatively small arc suffices to with its upper edge rolled as shown at l to scrape away or clear the adjacent bottom openform a reenforcing stiffening rim and being proings of the strainer from the pulp sufiiciently to vided intermediate of its top and bottom with allow the free flow of juice through the strainer. 45 an annular shoulder as at 2 to permit the In the form illustrated the dome-like body smaller lower portion of the receptacle to be por o 0f e reamer is p ov With a inserted in an appropriate juice container upon threaded socket for receiving the threaded upwhose top edge or rim the annular shoulder or per end 6 of a screw post 6 and preferably a ledge is supported. bearing washer (i is interposed between the up- 50 The bottom 3 of the strainer receptacle is per end 5* of the central boss 5 and the correforaminous and, as shown, is provided with consponding thrust surface near the lower end of centric rows of perforations 3* extending nearly the body portion 1 of the reamer. to the peripheral wall of the strainer receptacle. While the strainer and the reamer might be The construction of reamer shown comprises a made of any suitable material, I prefer to make 55 the strainer receptacle of pressed metal, preferably of non-corrosive metal such as aluminum alloy, while the reamer may be cast of similar metal and should have its reaming blades tapered to a thin edge to more efiectively and easily scrape out the pulp on the interior of the fruit being juiced.

In Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 I have shown a modification of the reamer stop member which possesses one advantage over the stop pin 8 shown in Fig. 2. In this case the stop means for limiting the rotative movement of the reamer blades 1 consists of upright bevel plates 9 provided with downwardly extending tongues 9 arranged to be inserted through perforations in the strainer bottom or fastened in any suitable manner to hold them rigidly in place between each adjacent pair of blades to limit the arc of rotation of the reamer. If stop members of this kind be used, they have the added advantage and function of permitting the pulp accumulating in the bottom of the strainer to be squeezed between the blade wings l and the stop plates 9 and thus an additional supply of juice may be extracted from the pulp.

What I claim is:

l. A juice extracting device comprising a receptacle having a perforated strainer bottom, a fruit reamer pivotally mounted to permit oscillation about its central axis under the torque exerted when the fruit is pressed upon the reamer and twisted to and fro, said reamer having radiating scraper blades whose lower edges extend in close proximity to the bottom to form scrapers for scraping the pulp circumferentially in opposite directions, and stop means interposed between the scraper blades to limit oscillatory movements of the reamer and serve as abutments against which the scraper blades squeeze the extracted pulp while uncovering a portion of the perforations.

2. A juice extracting device comprising a receptacle having a foraminous strainer bottom and a central bearing member, a fruit reamer pivotally mounted for free oscillation within a positively limited arc in response to the torque exerted by pressure upon it of a fruit section being twisted to and fro, scraper blades radiating from the lower portion of the reamer in close proximity to the strainer bottom and acting to scrape the pulp away from underlying strainer openings on each oscillation of the reamer, a fixed stop member arranged to hold the reamer stationary, after a narrow arc of movement, against the torque exerted by the further twisting of the fruit in the same direction, whereby the strainer openings are uncovered to permit drainage of the juice by the oscillating movement of the strainer and the reamer acts to ream the fruit during the further twisting of the fruit thereon.

MICHAEL A. KENNEDY. 

